Scotts Valley Unified School District

SVUSD

Vision

Our students will be socially responsible, pursuing their full potential in intellectual, social, and physical development, and be engaged, ethical and effective citizens.

Mission

Scotts Valley Unified School District will provide each student with quality educational and social opportunities needed to thrive in a modern world.

SVUSD CORE VALUES AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Our role is to develop academically capable, culturally attuned and socially responsible students.
There is strength and value in diversity of thought and experience.
District decisions, at all levels, should be thoughtful, equitable and transparent.
We value commitment and collaboration from our engaged students, families and the community.
We value trust, respect and teamwork from our highly skilled and dedicated team.
We are accountable to our public for setting clear expectations and optimizing resources to meet our goals.

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SVMS Construction

We are proud of this progress on the gymnasium! The top photo shows an aerial view of the gymnasium construction, and you can also see the new administration building and the dropoff/pickup area. The bottom photo is a closer view of the gymnasium construction and reflects what an impressive structure this building will be!

Aerial of SVMS construction

School Board Information:

CURRENT SCHOOL BOARD AGENDAS

2018 BOARD MEETING SCHEDULE

SVUSD BOARD POLICIES

Our Students Continue to Impress and Amaze Us!

Jarrett Bare, an eleventh grader at Scotts Valley High School, has already successfully developed and launched six apps, among other business ventures! He is pictured below with Superintendent Krause at the 17^th Annual Your Future is our Business Education/Business Luncheon, where he demonstrated his newest App, LitQuote. According to Jarrett, “LitQuote helps revolutionize the way we write essays and allows students to find perfect quotes to write about through searching our immense database with easy to use filters.” Congratulations, Jarrett – you make us proud!

Krause and Bare in front of app posters

Quick Resources

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2017 - 2018 Calendar

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2019 - 2020 Calendar

School Snippets

Vine Hill Elementary

March 30th, was the culmination of our Read-a-Thon. Our librarian, Mrs. Boothby and her children treated the entire school to a performance of bagpipes and Scottish music and dancing. Ask your children to teach you one of the dance steps they learned!We are enrolling new students for the 2018-19 school year. If you know anyone who is moving to the area, please have them contact Maria Gauthier at Vine Hill is 438-1090 or mgauthier@scottsvalleyusd.org. Additionally, families with incoming kindergarten students should be starting the registration process now.

Brook Knoll Elementary

* This year's fundraising auction for the PTO has been extremely successful! Thank you to all who participated through event night, donations, and our public online auction.* Read-a-Thon begins May 7-11. Looking forward to another successful event and fantastic guest readers.* New lunch time Garden Club is very popular and students are learning great gardening skills and

Scotts Valley Middle

The front gate is open! SVMS is pleased to announce that the upgraded student entrance on Scotts Valley Drive is now open. For those that scooter, walk, skateboard or bike to school, please enter on Scotts Valley Drive. The Bean Creek Gate will no longer be open. We will continue to provide supervision at this entrance for students.

Scotts Valley High

SVHS Choir student performing in NYC!On Sunday, April 15th, at 8pm, the SVHS choir will be joining other choirs and conductor Eric Whitacre for a concert at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Music teacher Beth Hollenbeck explains, "Students have been working on the concert repertoire for months now. Very difficult, college level pieces. All music must be memorized and they're singing in a variety of languages, including Hebrew and Spanish. One piece is a poly-rhythmic, poly-phonic layering of the "takadimi"

About Us

Scotts Valley Unified schools are ranked as some of the highest performing public schools in Santa Cruz County. We are proud of the high quality education we provide to approximately 2500 students year after year.

Please look around to see what we do so well here at SVUSD. Be sure to visit the individual school web sites to see what's happening at Brook Knoll Elementary School, Vine Hill Elementary School, Scotts Valley Middle School and Scotts Valley High School.